You didn't get in to Mists of Pandaria? All you had to do was keep an active subscription :/

i've always been subbed to WoW, don't remember getting invite to MoP beta, though i was doing my best to ignore beta stuff, so maybe i successfully ignored it.

but the only blizzard beta i have been in is hearthstone, and thats because they inivted everyone :P

Originally Posted by endus

A thread about how hard it is being a white dude is not really a reasonable topic.

Originally Posted by Gabriel

You are assuming Cybran actually reads the articles he links.
I suspect he is actually some Soviet algorithm gone rogue, transmitting from some forgotten bunker, responding to keywords by googling them and adding "+bad" to the search query, and then just copy/pasting anything it comes across.

I'm sorry to hear that, OP. I was in the F&F alpha for Lich King, but only because at the time my brother knew a Blizzard employee (an ex-guildie of ours). That's just happenstance. Since then I have been very casual, so haven't even tried to participate in either alpha or beta testing of expansions.

Maybe you could hold your breath for the beta. It's still a wee bit away and they are very likely to have mass invites just to push the servers in preparation for release day. There is always an influx of player demographics in the first week of release of an expansion, so I can see them doing at least a handful of stress test weekends with invites being thrown out willy-nilly.

I got one of the first invites for Cata beta, Diablo 3 mid-late beta, Hearthstone first EU wave beta though I didn't get MoP (It required that Annual Pass but it didn't work for my country unfortunately)

Hoping for WoD as well perhaps...

Also too soon for invites now, it's only press/family and friends at the moment.

as much as i would like to get into a beta/alpha, i also wouldn't want to play it. im not great at finding bugs, i'd rather play the finished and less buggy game.
mostly because of cata, i watched so many beta videos of everything, every dungeon, every zone, everything, by the time the game released none of it was new to me, i had seen every dungeon boss, so i don't want that to happen again.

Originally Posted by endus

A thread about how hard it is being a white dude is not really a reasonable topic.

Originally Posted by Gabriel

You are assuming Cybran actually reads the articles he links.
I suspect he is actually some Soviet algorithm gone rogue, transmitting from some forgotten bunker, responding to keywords by googling them and adding "+bad" to the search query, and then just copy/pasting anything it comes across.

as much as i would like to get into a beta/alpha, i also wouldn't want to play it. im not great at finding bugs, i'd rather play the finished and less buggy game.
mostly because of cata, i watched so many beta videos of everything, every dungeon, every zone, everything, by the time the game released none of it was new to me, i had seen every dungeon boss, so i don't want that to happen again.

To not get bored for example of Cata, I did some testing but very little from what I would play on live not to hurt my enjoyment of the expansion.
Since I play Horde only, I instead tested Worgen starting zone + continued leveling it more since the world was revamped and somebody had to test that stuff too :P

Can I just point out that there's no point in whining about not being invited to the Friends and Family Alfa if you're not a FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER OF A BLIZZARD EMPLOYEE. So unless you know someone who really works in their places, don't whinge about not getting it yet, you'll get one when Blizz are good and ready to take it out of F&F Only which its in at the moment.

Look on the bright side. Who wants to play an unfinished, buggy version with servers shutting down constantly and spoil the experience? Unless you are a really serious tester who actually wants nothing more than help create a bug free game on release.

I had beta invites for the last few x-pacs but never really bothered....

Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment

... there are lots of different types of players, with different amounts of time to play, and different tastes for the content and difficulty and time commitment they want to give to any of those pieces of content. The person that plays for an hour or so a few times a week is playing the same game as the person that plays five hours every night.....

The reason to be in a Beta is so that you can test and give feedback, do people not realize that MoPs Beta invitations were stupid, wrong and Blizzard aren't taking that route again? It was simply a marketing tool so they could keep customers entertained.

Seriously, 75% of my Guild (that's like... 80 people) and practically ALL of my Real ID List (200?) got into MoP Beta and the only useful thing to come out of it was "Oh we can test raids now" which never happened because my guild were too lazy. I suspect it's the same for a lot of people, you're not interested in being in the Beta to benefit the game. You just want to play as soon as possible and that is not at all the point of the beta.

Look on the bright side. Who wants to play an unfinished, buggy version with servers shutting down constantly and spoil the experience? Unless you are a really serious tester who actually wants nothing more than help create a bug free game on release.

I had beta invites for the last few x-pacs but never really bothered....

Exactly, its not like its anything like a finished product so 99% of the people here would get into it, have the game crash and them come here going AMFHG WURST 'SPANSHUN EVHA!